When you’re up to date with trends and new developments in the technology space, you’d be forgiven for dismissing every term you hear as jargon. The likes of cloud, internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning are mentioned so often, the terms have lost the meaning they were supposed to convey.

With that in mind, it’s easy to dismiss digital transformation once you hear the phrase. Tacking digital...

Steorn was the start-up that claimed it could create free energy using magnets, and tried to prove it for 15 years and €23 million. In his new book, The Impossible Dream, Barry J Whyte traces the company’s journey from maverick upstart to spectacular flame-out. In this excerpt, he meets co-founder Shaun McCarthy, who candidly examines his own vision, errors, and legacy

Business Post Tech Editor Emmet Ryan is joined by Michael Conway of Renaissance and Gary Robinson of Uleska for a discussion about security issues for businesses during lockdown. The lockdown security podcast is sponsored by Renaissance